On July 11, 1995, more than 8,000 Muslims were massacred by armed Serb separatists and the military in the city of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has been 29 years since the largest massacre in Europe since the Second World War.
For the first time in France, a university professor was brought to criminal responsibility for expressing his views on a foreign conflict. Political scientist Francois Bourgat was arrested on charges of "terrorist propaganda" for criticizing Israel's occupation of Palestine.